best <40B alternatives to Qwen/Deepseek for (1) Coding (2) Long document QA test

A developer is seeking alternatives to Qwen/Deepseek models, which are prohibited in their workplace, for tasks like coding and long document QA tests. They are looking for local models under 40B parameters that can handle extensive medical histories (120k tokens) for QA. The developer also wonders if fine-tuned versions of these alternative models could surpass Qwen3.8 27B in coding performance.